Category5 Technology TV - New Media in Cottage Country

New Media in Cottage Country

S05E45
July 31, 2012

Silver Beach hosts Category5 for the Cottage Country Special, with a live performance by Eric Kidd and in-studio audience.

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This episode is sponsored in part by: Silver Beach Developments, LEI Electronics Inc., Eco Alkalines, LiquidImage Canada, Pivos, Freeplay Canada, Cordery Electric and Netflix.

Topics Covered:

Robbie Ferguson and Eric Kidd present from the model home at Silver Beach Developments in Haliburton, Ontario.
Eric's BlackBerry device granted Robbie's iPod wifi access from the cottage.
Something unique from cottage country: maple syrup based wine from Moon Shadows Estate Winery.
Category5 Technology TV featured in the Haliburton County Echo newspaper.
{play 7:40}Viewer Questions.
Viewer Comment: What a beautiful web site Category5 team! I find the anti-idiot method of proving you're a human on the "Ask a Question" page.
Greetings to viewers from all around the world.
Viewer Comment: I haven't been able to find the viewer points on the new Category5.TV web site. Are they gone forever?
Viewer Question: What is the Linux equivelent of Windows' hosts file?
Viewer Comment: You mentioned something about barbecues, and I thought I'd share this picture with you and the viewers. It's the front of an old car of mine that I converted into a barbecue.
Viewer Question: In regards to your segment about what people do to backup their data in Episode 253, can you make a recommendation of how to backup my VHS tapes to my computer?
Viewer Question: I'm running VirtualBox on Ubuntu 12.04 and I can't seem to get the most up-to-date version. It continually asks to install the new version, even though Synaptic says I have the latest version.
What VirtualBox offers its users, for free.
Viewer Comment: Robbie got my name correct; swissandi. Thank you for your help on installing the WhatPulse Linux script. Big thanks for your great show.
Viewer Comment: I'd like to plug a new show on TWiT.TV called Know How with Leo Laporte which airs every Thursday at 3pm Pacific.

{play 26:34}Silver Beach Developments - a closer look at Haliburton's lakeside urban-style community.

{play 30:40}The brand new Pivos Xios DS Mediaplay set-top device: the next generation HTPC powered by Android.
The Xios DS Mediaplay supports XDMC with the free firmware update!
The Xios DS Mediaplay supports Netflix out of the box.
In-Studio Viewer Question: I have a wifi Internet service which sometimes has poor bandwidth. How does Netflix handle this type of issue?
{play 43:18}Prizes, prizes and prizes.
{play 46:44}Eric performs a couple songs as prizes are drawn for the in-studio audience.